colorAnnotate Utility

The colorAnnotate utility reads the stream map file, using colorAnnotate lines in the mapping file and by annotating the OA database shapes with the color attributes for those shapes from the specified gds file. It merges color annotations in a Stream file with the data in an OpenAccess database, including the data at the specified top-level cell and the hierarchy below it.

The OpenAccess library and the Stream file (.gds) should have the same hierarchical structure. The only difference can be the flattening of instances in the Stream file. Other hierarchy modifications (for example, if the mosaic in the OpenAccess database is represented as a set of different instances in the Stream file), can cause colorAnnotate to work incorrectly.

colorAnnotate is included in the installation and can be called from:

<install>/bin/colorAnnotate

You can run colorAnnotate from the command line.

colorAnnotate -library libName -strmFile fileList -topCell cellName [options]

Virtuoso Multi-Patterning Technology User Guide
Product Version IC23.1, November 2023